Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] had be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of relatively few firearms had been devastating against a warrior race with no previous experience of them . |
| 2 | Some boys had been jumping on the backs of trams , when the conductor 's attention was distracted , giving the emergency bell signal , stealing cash boxes and jumping off . |
| 3 | Such conclusions had been growing in force in American higher education for many years , and especially since the investigation carried out by Harvie Branscomb , librarian of Duke University , in the later 19305 at the request of the Association of American Colleges . |
| 4 | If I shifted my weight on to the shoulder these mugs had been using as a football , the pain took away my thoughts from the throbbing ache in my head . |
| 5 | All these trees had been growing on peat do you see , and the peat was dry . |
| 6 | Many of these children had been attending for a long time , so they already knew many things , specially the important things like how to stand in line and what to do when your pen-nib broke . |
| 7 | Some of these men had been posing as caravan holiday makers for some weeks and now settled for a long , cold night on the clifftops . |
| 8 | At last the government recognised what many researchers had been saying for years : that corporal punishment did not address the causes of bad behaviour , caused resentment among older pupils in particular , and was ‘ inimical to the quality of relationships between teachers and pupils upon which good behaviour is based ’ . |
| 9 | In 1984–5 , most of the courses in all institutions had been running for less than five years , though about a third of courses in Colleges , including nearly half the B Ed Primary courses had been operating in the way described for more than five years . |
| 10 | His article in the Transactions of the Würzburg Physical Medical Society was promptly reported in England and America and , as many scientists had been working in the field , was widely taken up . |
| 11 | Throughout his life several elements had been working within him : a deep knowledge and appreciation of the countryside , a sharp mind and a willingness to learn . |
| 12 | The same thoughts had been going through the minds of two other women with disabilities . |
| 13 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 14 | Both countries had been over-producing against their OPEC quotas for some time , helping depress prices gradually and giving rise to familiar bouts of recrimination between them and other member states with higher absorptive capacities for revenues . |
| 15 | The AEEU Scottish organiser , Harry McLevy , said he thought both sides had been inching towards some sort of agreement . |